1urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:f9b2e808-c883-5f47-b276-6d62129e4ff4urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:245B00E9-BFE5-4B4F-B76E-15C30BA74C02Biodiversity Data JournalBDJ1314-28361314-2828Pensoft Publishers10.3897/BDJ.4.e786378635143urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:eb1e7272-e1c7-52ad-b40e-f10c969c6207urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0DF64CB5-1BF7-4FDB-AE39-4F8CF66D9885http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/FF89A11AFFEEFFFA3B40FFAEFF98904ETaxonomic PaperAnimaliaHexapodaDipteraInsectaTachinidaeArthropodaInvertebrataBiodiversity & ConservationEcology & Environmental sciencesSystematicsCosta RicaCentral America and the CaribbeanCentral AmericaAmericasA new species of Phosocephala Townsend, 1908 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa RicaFlemingAJajfleming604@gmail.com‡WoodD. Monty‡SmithM. Alex§JanzenDaniel H|HallwachsWinnie|DapkeyTanya|1Agriculture Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, CanadaAgriculture Agri-Food CanadaOttawaCanada2Department of Integrative Biology and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Guelph, CanadaDepartment of Integrative Biology and the Biodiversity Institute of OntarioGuelphCanada3Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of AmericaDepartment of Biology, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUnited States of America

Corresponding author: AJ Fleming (ajfleming604@gmail.com).

Academic editor: Daniel Whitmore

2016250420164e78632101201621042016AJ Fleming, D. Monty Wood, M. Alex Smith, Daniel H Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Tanya DapkeyThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.AbstractBackground

We describe a new species of Phosocephala Townsend, and provide a new collection record, and description of the previously unknown male, of Phosocephalametallica Townsend, from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica. All ACG specimens were reared from wild-caught Lepidoptera larvae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Nolidae). We provide a concise description of both species using morphology, life history, molecular data, and photographic documentation. The new species is authored and described by Fleming and Wood.

The genus Phosocephala Townsend, 1908 (Tachininae: Tachinini) belongs to the tribe Tachinini in the subfamily Tachininae. Tachininae parasitoids are ovo-larviparous, laying their eggs on or near the host. Once the eggs havehatched, the first instar larvae seek out the host and burrow through its integument (Stireman et al. 2006). The genus was previously known only from the holotype, originally described by Townsend (1908). Townsend erected the new genus based on the single female specimen collected from the rain forest of Tucurrique, Costa Rica, during an expedition by Messrs. Schild and Burgdorf, which he described as Phosocephalametallica Townsend.

The present study is part of a larger group of studies documenting the tachinid species living within the 120,000 km2 terrestrial part of Area de Conservación Guanacaste (http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr), and name the undescribed species discovered during the project. To date, two species of Phosocephala have been reared from Area de Conservación Guanacaste. Using CO1 (cox1 or cytochrome oxidase 1) gene sequences or “DNA barcodes”, life history, and morphological differences as diagnostic characters, we describe a new species, and provide a redescription, the description of the male, and a new record for P.metallica Townsend.

This inventory has reared more than 600,000 wild-caught caterpillars since (1978). All frequencies of parasitization reported here need to be considered against this background inventory (Janzen et al. 2009, Janzen and Hallwachs 2011, Fernandez-Triana et al. 2014).

Habitus and terminalia photographs were taken using the methods outlined in Fleming et al. (2014a). Raw image files were first processed with Adobe Photoshop CS6, then digitally stacked to produce a final composite image using Zerene Stacker Software v1.04.

USNM - National Museum of Natural History (formerly United States National Museum), Washington, D.C., U.S.A

Voucher specimen management

The management of voucher specimens has been detailed in previous papers in this series (Fleming et al. 2014a, Fleming et al. 2014b, Fleming et al. 2015a, Fleming et al. 2015b, Fleming et al. 2015c, Fleming et al. 2015d). In brief, caterpillars reared from the ACG efforts receive a unique voucher code in the format yy–SRNP–xxxxx. Parasitoids emerging from a caterpillar receive the same voucher code; when/ifthey are later individually processed for DNA barcoding, they receive a second, unique voucher code in the format DHJPARxxxxxxx. The associated data for each voucher code are available at: http://janzen.bio.upenn.edu/caterpillars/database.lasso.

All DHJPARxxxxxxx-coded tachinids had one leg removed for DNA barcoding and couriered to the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) in Guelph. All associated data and successful barcodes are permanently and publicly deposited in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) (Ratnasingham and Hebert 2007), and a select set of these data subsequently migrated to GenBank. Each barcoded specimen also received accession numbers from the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) and GenBank, respectively. Because the inventory is continually adding new specimens, these can be found by searching for the genus Phosocephala in BOLD.

All inventoried specimens discussed herein were collected under Costa Rican government research permits issued to DHJ, and the Tachinidae samples were exported under permit by DHJ from Costa Rica to their final depository in the CNC. Tachinid identifications for the inventory were done by DHJ in coordination with a) visual inspection by AJF and DMW, b) DNA barcoding by MAS and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, and c) databasing and association with host caterpillars by DHJ and WH via the inventory itself.

The dates of capture cited for each fly are the dates of eclosion of the fly, and not the date of capture of the caterpillar. The fly eclosion date is much more representative of the time when that species is on the wing than is the time of capture of the parasitized caterpillar. The “collector” is the parataxonomist who found the caterpillar, rather than the person who later retrieved the newly eclosed fly and processed it by freezing, pinning, labeling and oven–drying. The biology and parasitization rates of individual tachinid speciesecies will be the subject of later papers. The holotype of the new species is deposited in the Diptera collection of the CNC.

Interim names for undescribed host species

Names of undescribed host species follow a standardized, interim naming system used for taxonomic units considered as distinct species and identified by DNA barcodes. The interim names are given in the format "Eois Janzen52", where the species epithet is composed of the name of the taxonomist who identified the species and a number. This prevents confusion with already described species while maintaining traceability of each undescribed species within the ACG project.

DNA barcoding

The standard DNA barcode region from the 5’ end of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (CO1) gene was obtained for all five ACG inventory specimens presented here using DNA extractions obtained from single legs, using a glass fiber protocol (Ivanova et al. 2006). Total genomic DNA was re-suspended in 30 μl of dH2O, and the 658-bp barcode region near the 5’ terminus of the CO1 gene was amplified using standard primers (LepF1–LepR1) and following established protocols (Smith et al. 2006, Smith et al. 2007, Smith et al. 2008). All information pertaining to the sequences associated with each individual specimen (including GenBank and BOLD accession) can be retrieved from the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) (Ratnasingham and Hebert 2007) via the publicly available dataset: https://doi.org/10.5883/DS-ASPHOSC

Phosocephala belongs to the tribe Tachinini. The tribe Tachinini is defined by the presence ofthe following characters: first flagellomere elongate, bean-shaped; prosternum bare; upper side of calypter bare; first postsutural supra-alar bristle at least as long and stout as first postsutural dorsocentral bristle; hind coxa setose.

The following redescription applies to both males and females, which differ only very slightly; any differences between the sexes are noted. Head: bright yellow to dark orange, about as wide as thorax; width of frons greater than 1/2 of head width; head flattened laterally, approximately 2x longer than wide; frontal bristles not descending beyond middle of pedicel, upper two pairs of frontal bristles strong and reclinate; fronto-orbital plate with 2 pairs of strong proclinate orbital bristles; 2 pairs of reclinate vertical bristles; ocellar bristles well developed, proclinate and strongly divergent; fronto-orbital plate haired; frons concolorous with parafrontal, only differentiated by its lack of hairs; parafacial densely haired, though these hairs are not obvious unless viewed under varying angles of light; facial carina flat or absent; antennal grooves only slightly distinguishable; palpus entirely absent; eyes bare; first flagellomere approximately 2x as long as pedicel, brilliant orange, with hints of darkbrown; arista bare; gena from 0.3x to 0.5x height of eye (longer in females), and densely haired with short black to yellow-orange hairs. Thorax: thorax shiny metallic black over 90% of its surface, with a dense shiny golden pollinosity along the anterior edge; 4 gray pruinose thoracic vittae only visible under certain angles of light; prosternum bare; proepisternum bare; postpronotum translucent yellow, contrasting with remainder of scutellum, which is a metallic black; 5–7 meral bristles; anepimeron with 2 strong bristles; katepisternum bearing 3–4 bristles; anepisternum with 7 bristles along posterior fringe; 3 postsutural supra-alar bristles; 3 dorsocentral bristles; 2–3 pairs of lateral scutellar bristles and 1 pair of subapical scutellar bristles; apical scutellar bristles weak and convergent; scutellum with overall dark brown ground color, covered in a silver pollinosity. Wings distinctly smoky gray; wingvein R4+5 bearing only 2–3 bristles at base. Legs: entirely yellow, hirsute; posterior margin of metacoxa with 2–3 small, almost inconspicuous blond hairs; protibia with anterodorsal row of regularly spaced setae upper all equal in length, basal bristle 2X as long as the rest; claws and pulvilli short and thin, almost as long as 5th tarsomere. Mesotibia with 5 strong anterodorsal bristles, 2 anterior bristles almost 2/3 length of mesotibia, 2 posterodorsal bristles, and 1 ventral bristle. Metatibia with irregular row of anterodorsal setae, 4–5 posterodorsal and 2 anterior setae. Abdomen: subequal in length and width to thorax; mid-dorsal depression on T1+2 shallow and wide, extending almost to hind margin of tergite; anterior margins of tergites with narrow bands of thin silver pollinosity; median marginal bristles present on T3, and a row of marginal bristles on T4 and T5; discal bristles absent from all tergites; ground color of abdomen ranging from a deep blackish-burgundy, appearing shiny black when viewed from a distance, to a deep reddish-brown.

The new species differs from P.metallica by its smaller size, the bright yellow head color, the black color of the posterior half of the thorax laterally, encompassing the katepisternum, anepisternum, katepimeron, and meron, and the long black hairs laterally on the thorax.

Etymology

Phosocephalaalexanderi is dedicated to Mr. Alexander José Fleming of Ottawa, Canada, in recognition of the potential he has, as do all of the children of the world, to become the stewards and protectors of the biodiversity we describe here today.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste, Estacion Pitilla, rain forest, 675m.

Ecology

Reared twice from larvae of Antiblemma Hübner belonging to the undescribed species Antiblemma Poole12 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), which feeds on the leaves of Conostegiaxalapensis (Melastomataceae).

Phosocephalametallica differs from P.alexanderi by its larger size, the dark orange head color, the yellow ground color of the thorax laterally, encompassing the katepisternum, anepisternum, katepimeron, and meron, and the conspicuous yellow hairs laterally on the thorax.

This species was reared from three out of a total of 88 caterpillars of Iscadiapurpurascens (Schaus, 1910) (Lepidoptera: Nolidae) bred during the project. The host species feeds on leaves of Garciniaintermedia (Clusiaceae).

Analysis

The DNA barcode sequences recovered from the two species of ACG Phosocephala displayed the strong AT bias characteristic of insect mitochondrial DNA (mean percent GC content 30.33%, SE 0.1) and displayed no insertions or deletions. Within-species variation was low (mean distance of 0.39%) compared to between-species variation (mean distance 4.91%). All values of DNA barcode variation were calculated within BOLD and can be re-calculated in the future as more specimens or species are recovered from the ACG inventory and added to the DNA library. The neighbor-joining (NJ) tree (Saitou and Nei 1987) for the species of Phosocephala from ACG produced by BOLD is presented here as Suppl. material 1.

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the unflagging support of the team of ACG parataxonomists (Janzen et al. 2009, Janzen & Hallwachs 2011) who collected and reared the specimens used in this study, and the team of biodiversity managers who protect and manage the ACG forests that host these tachinids and their caterpillar hosts. The study has been supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants BSR 9024770 and DEB 9306296, 9400829, 9705072, 0072730, 0515699, and grants from the Wege Foundation, International Conservation Fund of Canada, Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, Blue Moon Fund, Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Permian Global, and University of Pennsylvania (DHJ&WH). This study has been supported by the Government of Canada through its ongoing support of the Canadian National Collection, Genome Canada, the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, and the Ontario Genomics Institute (2008–0GI–ICI–03) (MAS), and by a Discovery Grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (MAS).

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